It’s getting serious: the best husband of the world has left Switzerland this morning, together with a first load of boxes and furniture…accordingly, the kids and myself are finding ourselves in a half-empty flat, feeling a bit weird. The hobbit is incredibly grumpy (in a loud way!), the little one is tired as she went to bed late and skipped her nap, it’s pouring cats and dogs outside….it’s just one of these days that have far too many hours, if you know what I mean. As if it wouldn’t be exciting enough, the little one fell of her bike yesterday and we had to do a quick almost-after-work-hours emergency visit at our local pediatrist to make sure her nose isn’t broken. It looks pretty bizarre, both nose and lips are twice as big as normal and we are still not completely sure about the broken-issue (we have to come back on Friday when the swelling is gone…right now the pediatrist couldn’t tell if the nose is askew because of a fracture or because of the swelling). Luckily, the pain seems to be bearable.

We used the weekend before the move for a last trip in Switzerland and visited my sister in Neuchatel. Admittedly, we didn’t see each other as often as we would have liked and there is no real excuse for it unless you count work, train-incompatible kids during a grumpy phase and pleasant things like stomach bugs and influenza). The little one is really fond of her cousins, so we didn’t see a lot of her last weekend unless there were chocolate, cake or sweet chestnuts on the table. Apart from the culinary delights, we even managed to make Räbeliechtli (see previous entry for explanation) – “we” basically meaning Karsten and myself and a final, professionl touch from my Swiss brother-in-law. Turns out that cutting turnips is still too difficult for little children…

As a final adventure, we visited the Papiliorama – a butterfly zoo in Kerzers, which accomodates not only hundreds of beautiful butterflies but also a so called Nocturama where you can see, among others, bats, prehensile-tailed porcupines and armadillos. And a cool playground!! Particularly cool are also the display windows where you can watch the butterflies while they are emerging! If you ever happen to be in that area: we highly recommend this place!!

(I am trying to come up with a proper finishing line here, but it seems all my energy is been drained by now….Next time!)

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Familial entropy - that's an insight into our current life which has been fundamentally changed last summer when our daughter was born. Having studied in Cottbus, Germany, and worked/studied in Edinburgh, Scotland, we momentarily live in a small town in Switzerland where Karsten is trying to save the environment and Freddie is trying to save our sanity. Since there is not much time for elaborate, long emails while doing that, we thought a blog might be a good option to smuggle ourselves into the lifes of our friends.